well there's sort of some stuff to update. not much, but enough that i am sitting here typing. so i guess that's something.
as for baby girl- SHE HAS A NAME!!! Christina Rochelle. (Chrissy for a while because that's a big name for a little girl) for those of you who are curious where the name came from, it's the girl version of my two brother's names (Christopher and Richard). it's subject to change until it's actually on a birth certificate, but we're pretty sure we're sticking with it.
we've met with the doctors a few times. nothing really different to report there. her heart has not fixed itself, but it hasn't gotten worse either. we're still just waiting to see how her airway looks at delivery, and from there we will be able to figure out what kind of shape she's in and how we progress.
as for progress...we're making some. without going into too much detail (because it's weird to talk about my cervix in a blog) things are starting to happen, and we should have a baby within a week or so. that's a little early but everyone is ok with it. especially me. the funny thing is Gideon's birthday is Jan 18th so, if Chrissy is born before that, we'll have had 2 babies in one year. silly. crazy. whatever adjective you want to insert there.
we did receive some good news this week. a couple weeks ago they thought they might maybe have seen something abnormal in one of her ultrasounds, so we ended up getting an amnio test just to see if there was anything else going on that we should be aware of. (there are some specific chromosomal / medical things that often accompany heart defects and some of those have medical components that the doctors would need to know about if Chrissy got rushed to surgery right after delivery) we just got those results back and they are all normal. huge praise for us! we know that if the test had come back differently we'd deal with it, and that God would still be there to help and give us the grace and strength we need to tackle that. but we're thankful that everything looks good in that area.
so that's where we're at as a family. just sitting around waiting for Chrissy to show up. Garret's bosses are awesome and sent him home early, just in case things start moving quickly. i've never met them but i love his bosses. they have been AMAZING throughout this whole thing.
this entry seems disjointed and random, and i really don't have a good closing thought. sorry about that.
i'm blaming it on end stage pregnancy brain.
and.....done.
